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Annie Mac: BBC Radio 1 Waves Goodbye to the Broadcasting Icon
Annie MacManus, popularly known by her Radio/DJ name as Annie Mac, is a legendary Irish broadcaster, DJ, and writer. Born in Dublin to a music-orientated household, Annie carried her passion for music throughout her childhood and carried it on through to her university experience, which coincidentally is where it all kicked off.
MacManus moved to Belfast to study English Literature at Queens University, and it was during her time there when she would attend Shine, a club in Belfast, that would introduce her to dance music and ignite a lifelong passion. By the end of Annie’s degree, Mac had taken an interest in radio and earned a Master’s degree in it at Farnborough College of Technology.
Following the completion of her Masters, Mac moved to Camden to live with her brother where she would work with the student-run radio station SBN, alongside a DJ residency at Camden Underworld. At 23 is when Annie would make her first moves within the BBC, working as a broadcast assistant on Steve Lamacq’s BBC Radio 1 show. Fast forward three years, and the Annie Mac Show had launched. Now shit was about to get serious.
